PORTSMOUTH, OHIO – Jeanine Pirro’s irate husband hung up on his love child yesterday after a story in The Post detailed how he has recently begun paying more attention to her, the woman’s mother said.

Lobbyist Albert Pirro called the 22-year-old daughter he had in an extramarital affair to blame her for not defending him more in the article, said his former mistress, Jessica Hutchison.

Hutchison said in Monday’s Post that Al Pirro had offered to buy his daughter a PT Cruiser on the very day his wife, Jeanine Pirro, announced her Senate candidacy and that he had been more financially supportive of his daughter over the last six months. She called the timing of his generosity “glaringly obvious.”

Yesterday, Hutchison said her distraught daughter, Jaclyn Marciano, called her several times in tears after talking with her father.

Soon after, a calmer Al Pirro phoned his daughter again, she said. Hours later, Jaclyn released a statement denying that he “was trying to buy me off with a car.”

“I have had a very good relationship with my father for years now,” she said. “He has been very supportive of me and my children.”

Jaclyn said that she’d asked him for help in buying a used car but that he’d offered to find a better one.

Jaclyn then took direct aim at her mother for telling The Post that Al Pirro had been supportive only as his wife was gearing up to run for Senate.

“I believe I have been used by people who want to hurt my father and his wife,” Marciano said. “And for that, I am sorry.”

Hutchison responded that she didn’t think her daughter – who has mental-health problems – wrote the statement.

“To say he’s been helping her for years is insanity,” she fumed.

When The Post spoke with Jaclyn and her fiancé, Shawn Stratton, on Sunday, neither ever said the car story was untrue. Stratton repeatedly asked, “How did you find out about the car?”

Nor did Jaclyn deny the story in a phone conversation yesterday morning before issuing her statement.

For years, Pirro denied being Jaclyn’s father, acknowledging it only after being forced to give a DNA sample as part of a paternity suit in the mid-1990s. Hutchison said her daughter has only ever seen Al Pirro in person while the suit was being contested.

Jaclyn and her fiancé are unemployed and living at his parents’ house in Portsmouth, Ohio.

In a written statement, Al Pirro said: “I have read with considerable sadness the attempt by the New York Post to portray my continued support of my daughter Jaclyn as a recent political event. I have been and will continue to be supportive of my daughter and hope that the media will respect her privacy . . . Jeanine and I have worked through this issue long ago, together and with our children. For that, I am extremely grateful.”